Sunday, March 31, 2013

Latin OWL is an iOS app for the iPhone, which I have made, and that
you can download for free from the iTunes Store. The program is
copyright 2013 Scot Mcphee.

LatinOnlineWordLookup (LatinOWL)

Can’t work out the root form of a irregular Latin conjugation?
Confused as to whether it’s a 3rd declension neuter plural or a 1st
declension feminine ablative .. or even nominative? Is that 1st/2nd pl.
dative or ablative, or a 3rd m/f sing. genitive? Know how to parse the
form, but don’t know the vocabulary? There’s an app that that!The Latin Online Word Lookup (LatinOWL) is an iOS app that, by using
data from the Perseus Latin Word Tool, allows a user to lookup any Latin
word, locate the root (i.e. the nominative singular for nouns and
adjectives or the 1st person singular present active indicative for
verbs), and parse the entered form. It gives all possible forms for the
word entered. The tool then links the root(s) to the online Lewis &
Short dictionary from Perseus, and also from that dictionary, provides
links to the works in the Perseus database that are quoted in the
dictionary.You can download it from the iTunes App Store for free by clicking on the icon above or by using this link: LatinOWL in the iTunes AppStore (this link should redirect you to your regional store, where you will be able to download it).There are a few planned features for future versions, however, some of these may go only into the iPad version which may not be free, but a buck or two at the most:

save word lookup history

save favorite dictionary entries to local storage in the iPhone

a much better iPad version that will have afar better way to view
the links to the source works from the dictionary, also better
master/detail views, due to the increase in available screen real estate

possibly a Macintosh OSX version

There won’t be an Android version, I’m not interested in developing
for Android. You can build your own, off my source code (see below).

Saturday, March 30, 2013

This blog will host free downloads of pdfs of vocabulary lists I made (and occasionally still do) for Classical texts. They are always line-by-line, and I hope will make it easier for more people to read more Latin and Greek, which are awesome languages with awesome things written in them. If you see any typos, please post a comment.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Welcome to the AncientPlanet,
a bi-monthly online journal featuring original research papers on
history, archaeology and science. The purpose of this publication is
twofold.

In the first instance, it is intended to
provide a platform for both professional academics and students to
present their research to the wider public. As such, we welcome
contributions from individuals from all walks of life, whether
undergraduates, postgraduates, academics, museum staff.. and also from
the general public.

Second to this, but equally as
important, it is hoped that this journal will promote a greater
understanding of this ancient planet we call home. As someone, somewhere
once said: “Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of
what happened before you took your place on Earth is to remain a child
forever and ever.”

We at AncientPlanet are dedicated to
this axiom… to preserve and foster a greater understanding of our
planet’s past, to protect and preserve our planet’s future.

Modern technology in general, digital in particular, have
added new dimensions as well as more sophisticated vocational
requirements to the field of Library and Information Science, from which
researches and knowledge lovers benefit. Amidst this tremendous
quantity of forms of the technological revolution, it was natural for
the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to adopt the concept of digital publication
in order to make it available to researchers interested in science and
knowledge. This, in turn, is what propels the Calligraphy Center to
provide the study of inscriptions, calligraphy, and writings of the
world across the ages from the prehistoric age until now with a new
approach and vision. From this premise, the idea of the Digital Library
of Inscriptions and Calligraphies was generated.This project comes at the head of the Center of the Studies of Writings
and Calligraphy’s objectives, which has taken upon itself the
publication of different inscriptions and writings; in particular,
inscriptions in different languages and writings from Egypt and abroad,
which the center has made available to scientists, researchers, and
amateurs in a simplified digital content through the website. The project of the Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies is
considered a digital record for writings carved on buildings and
archaeological remains across the ages. These inscriptions are presented
to the user in a digital form, including a synopsis of the
inscription’s data, photos, and a record of the writing’s it bears .

The project has been adopted in the present time
to record a group of languages in numerous scripts, including Ancient
Egyptian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Greek; developing the
inscriptions of each script separately, and recording a new group of
other languages’ scripts. The basic data and detailed descriptions of
these inscriptions are displayed in two languages: Arabic and English.

Project organizers were keen to build a
flexible, user-friendly website for the Digital Library of Inscriptions
and Calligraphies in order to enable a large number of researchers to
benefit from the gems of archaeological written inscriptions and further
browse the images and references of each inscription separately. The
inscriptions can be easily browsed by language, or the classification of
the inscription; architecture, arts, or sculpture as well as the type
of the archaeological remain. It is possible to find a specific
inscription using the advanced search feature which allows the user to
search by the artifact’s number, place of preservation, or place of
discovery, and also by the period of time to which the written
inscription belongs. At this moment, the researcher will find all the
information related to the archaeological remain accompanied with
high-quality images, analysis of the written inscription, information
and a descriptive synopsis of the remain as well as a translation of the
inscription.

The Calligraphy Center aspires to make the
Digital Library of Inscriptions one of the most important digital
libraries specializing in the field of inscriptions and writings on the
internet.

Viewing complete books in AMAR: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Site ReportsThe default view of digitized books in AMAR is page view. However, by choosing the Complete Print Version from the View drop-down screen located in the upper left hand corner of the individual item screen, a complete print version is generated in PDF format.

The Parthian Empire is a fascinating period of Persian history
closely connected to Greece and Rome. Ruling from 247 B.C. to A.D. 228
in ancient Persia (Iran), the Parthians defeated Alexander the Great's
successors, the Seleucids, conquered most of the Middle East and
southwest Asia, controlled the Silk Road and built Parthia into an
Eastern superpower. The Parthian empire revived the greatness of the
Achaemenid empire and counterbalanced Rome's hegemony in the West.
Parthia at one time occupied areas now in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia,
Georgia, Azerbaidzhan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan,
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

Because limited written historical sources have survived, much of
what we know about the Parthians and their sub-kingdoms of Characene,
Elymais and Persis must be deduced from coins. For that reason, the
primary focus is on numismatics. But this site is not just a virtual
coin collection; here you can also gain insight into Parthian art,
history, archaeology, and geography. You will also find references to
the books, articles, maps and other resources necessary for further
study.

Enjoy your visit and add this page to your favorites list so you can
easily return. I welcome corrections and any suggestions for improvement
of content or format of this site. You may post open messages or send a
private e-mail message on the feedback page.

Interested in discussing Parthia with others? Join the
Parthia-L mail list! It is a lightly moderated mail list created to
facilitate discussions about Parthia. It is not limited to numismatics,
and discussion of all aspects of Parthia is encouraged. Numerous
scholars use the list but popular topics are also welcome. To subscribe,
send a blank e-mail or visit the mail list's home page.

We are pleased to announce that the educational pages of the CuneiformDigital Library Initiative, the cdli:wiki, now hosted at the University ofOxford, have been significantly updated over the last few months.cdli:wiki remains the host for a great number of tools for Assyriologydeveloped and written by staff of the cdli at UCLA, Oxford, and theMPIWG Berlin. In particular the Abbreviations for Assyriology page that hasbeen widely cited in recent years, remains accessible with us, and weare happy to enter new recommendations or make corrections in ourfiles. We have added two other bibliographical tools, "RecentPublications in Assyriology" with abstracts andlinks to published TOC's, and a "Bibliography of Sumerian Literature,derived from the Oxford project "Electronic Text Corpus of SumerianLiterature".
When the CDLI inherited the Mesopotamian Year-Names project of PeterDamerow and Marcel Sigrist, that in the meantime has been expanded,and for many Lagash II and Ur III year names corrected by RichardFirth, we decided to incorporate this work into a broader presentationof the chronology of Mesopotamia. The list of Assyrian limmuofficials nowreaches from 1972 BC to shortly before year 1000 BC (the electronicOld Assyrian limmu list was provided by Gojko Barjamovich and ThomasHertel). We are in the process of linking this list to the data of theCDLI project, and expect to add neo-Assyrian limmu names in the nearfuture. Among the lists of year names, the Ur III Dynastyremains the best covered in cdli:wiki.
Our writing systems pages, underdevelopment as well, will host sign lists and information about thedifferent writing systems attested in the ancient Near East.
Finally, our list of the "One Hundred Most Important CuneiformObjects",that attempts to drawthe attention of students and informal learnersto particularly significant texts, has alreadyreceived some publicityon this list. As always, we encourage comments, additions, andcorrections to this webpage as well as to any of the other componentsthat make up oureducational and research tools initiative.

"'Monumentum' has in view to express the purpose of ICOMOS and the
ideals inspiring it. It presents itslef as the instrument to voice our
aims and programmes and, at the same time, it may lead to a better
understanding both of the universal value reprensented by the patrimony
of the monuments and of the culture reflected in this patrimony." Piero
Gazzola, Preseident of ICOMOS,1967

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The British Numismatic Journal (BNJ)
is the Society's principal publication and has been published since
1903. The Society has recently made a complete digital archive of all
issues of the BNJ to 2007 freely available available to
download. New
and recent volumes will be made available five years after publication.
In late 2011, large PDF files of entire volumes were made freely
available on the society's webspace.
In 2012, the volumes have been
split into their constituent articles and made available to search via
the google bar below.

Each volume can be accessed by clicking the links below. This will
lead to a list of the individual articles in each, each of which can be
individually dowloaded. You may download the whole volume but the files
are
very large and may take some time to download.
All of the files are PDFs and will require a reader to access them. To
download a reader for free (Adobe Acrobat) please
click here.

The volumes are arranged chronologically. If you are looking for a specific subject then you can either consult the Index of BNJ contents 1903-2010 or use the google search bar...

This is a new resource and there are probably some errors within it. If you find any of these please report them to the BNS Webmasters

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Nearly 20,000 images of artworks the museum believes to be in the public domain are available to download on this site.
Other images may be protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.
By using any of these images you agree to LACMA's Terms of Use.

LACMA provides several ways to search the collection, including chronologically

The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is a center for basic
research on the origins and meaning of the cultural heritage of Western
civilization. It is operated by the Claremont Graduate School,
collaborating with the School of Theology, and in association with the
five undergraduate colleges in the Claremont cluster.

The Bulletin of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is
published periodically under the auspices of the Society for Antiquity
and Christianity for the general information of persons interested in
the research programs of the Institute.

Geochronometria
is aimed at integrating scientists developing different methods of absolute
chronology and using them in different fields of earth and other natural
sciences and archaeology. The methods in use are physical (e.g. radiocarbon
and other isotopic methods, luminescence etc.) as well as non-physical
(e.g. dendrochronology or varve chronology), and they are used in so diverse
fields of science as geology, palaeoclimatology, palaeobiology, palaeohydrology,
archaeology, etc.. Each method can be applied
in many fields, and vice versa, each field can benefit from application
of many chronological methods. The journal enables an easy exchange of
information about the potential and limitations of various chronological
methods to solve specific problems in various branches of science, and
stimulates formulation of new ideas on their further development and application.

In the sense of classical division of sciences, Geochronometria
is multidisciplinary and in fact, interdisciplinarity is quite a
common feature of most modern research dealing with methods of absolute
chronology.

Geochronometria
publishes papers that are concerned with all methods of absolute dating.
Papers focusing both on techniques/methodology and on applications of dating
are equally encouraged. Papers combining and comparing results of
various methods are especially desirable.

In order to increase the international accessibility of Geochronometria,
starting from Volume 26 (year 2007) it has been published in electronic
form by the publishing house Versita using the platform of MetaPress up to volume 37 (year 2010). From the beginning of 2011 (volume 38) Springer is the co-publisher and distributor of Geochronometria and is available on the SpringerLink
platform. Geochronometria's volumes up to volume 37 are available free
of charge.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Greek and Roman Musical Studies is a new journal that will
publish research papers in the fields of ancient Greek and Roman music,
including musical theory, musical archaeology and musical iconography in
Classical antiquity, as well as on its reception in later times.

This new journal from Brill has its initial issue online open access (for now).

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.